Author: Thomas C Fiddick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Russia's Retreat From Poland 1920
Author: Thomas C Fiddick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349206547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
White Eagle, Red Star
Author: Norman Davies
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446466868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to 'water our horses on the Rhine' - was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known as the 'miracle on the Vistula', it remains one of the most decisive battles of the Western world. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Norman Davies illustrates the narrative with documentary material which hitherto has not been readily available and shows how the War was far more an 'episode' in East European affairs, but largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446466868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army - sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to 'water our horses on the Rhine' - was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known as the 'miracle on the Vistula', it remains one of the most decisive battles of the Western world. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Norman Davies illustrates the narrative with documentary material which hitherto has not been readily available and shows how the War was far more an 'episode' in East European affairs, but largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more.
Warsaw 1920
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472837282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had the war spread into Germany, another great European war would have ensued, dragging in France and Britain. However, the Red Army was defeated by 'the miracle on the Vistula'. This campaign title explores the origins and outcomes of this momentous battle. In May 1920, the Polish Army intervened in war-torn Ukraine, pushing all the way to Kiev, but the Red Army, by now triumphant in most of the theatres of the Russian Civil War, turned its attention to this new threat. By the late summer of 1920, two Soviet armies had advanced into Poland and the overconfident Soviet leadership dreamed of advancing over a prostrate Polish Army into neighbouring Germany to ignite a Communist revolution in the heart of Europe. Thanks to the low density of forces on both sides and the huge distances involved, the conflict was a war of manoeuvre, with a curious mixture of traditional and advanced tactics. Horse cavalry played a dominant role in the fighting, but aeroplanes, tanks, and armoured trains lent the war an air of modernity. This illustrated study explores the war through the lens of the Battle of Warsaw, the turning point when, after a summer of disastrous retreat, the Polish army rallied and repulsed the Red Army at Warsaw and Lwow.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472837282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had the war spread into Germany, another great European war would have ensued, dragging in France and Britain. However, the Red Army was defeated by 'the miracle on the Vistula'. This campaign title explores the origins and outcomes of this momentous battle. In May 1920, the Polish Army intervened in war-torn Ukraine, pushing all the way to Kiev, but the Red Army, by now triumphant in most of the theatres of the Russian Civil War, turned its attention to this new threat. By the late summer of 1920, two Soviet armies had advanced into Poland and the overconfident Soviet leadership dreamed of advancing over a prostrate Polish Army into neighbouring Germany to ignite a Communist revolution in the heart of Europe. Thanks to the low density of forces on both sides and the huge distances involved, the conflict was a war of manoeuvre, with a curious mixture of traditional and advanced tactics. Horse cavalry played a dominant role in the fighting, but aeroplanes, tanks, and armoured trains lent the war an air of modernity. This illustrated study explores the war through the lens of the Battle of Warsaw, the turning point when, after a summer of disastrous retreat, the Polish army rallied and repulsed the Red Army at Warsaw and Lwow.
The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe
Author: Jerzy Borzecki
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300145012
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Riga peace of 1921 ended the Soviet-Polish war and is sometimes considered the most important Eastern European peace treaty of the inter-war period. This book offers an account of how the two sides came to sign the treaty - a pact that established a boundary with a measure of stability that would last untill 1939.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300145012
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Riga peace of 1921 ended the Soviet-Polish war and is sometimes considered the most important Eastern European peace treaty of the inter-war period. This book offers an account of how the two sides came to sign the treaty - a pact that established a boundary with a measure of stability that would last untill 1939.
The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of the World
Author: Edgar Vincent D'Abernon (Viscount)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe
Author: Adam Zamoyski
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007284004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007284004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.
Russia in Flames
Author: Laura Engelstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199794219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199794219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24
Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134075502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134075502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black Sea Cooperation
Author: Ostap Kushnir
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152753054X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. With its regular re-appearances in contemporary academic and political discourses, this book explores and assesses a variety of its connotations. In order to do this, it applies a multi-dimensional approach to the Intermarium. Six researchers specializing in Central and Eastern European history, geopolitics, security, economics, and cultural studies are brought together here to share their expert knowledge. As a result, the book discusses various, unique aspects of the Intermarium. At the very end, a conclusion is drawn as to whether the cognominal framework possesses any feasible potential for emergence and development in the contemporary international architecture.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152753054X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. With its regular re-appearances in contemporary academic and political discourses, this book explores and assesses a variety of its connotations. In order to do this, it applies a multi-dimensional approach to the Intermarium. Six researchers specializing in Central and Eastern European history, geopolitics, security, economics, and cultural studies are brought together here to share their expert knowledge. As a result, the book discusses various, unique aspects of the Intermarium. At the very end, a conclusion is drawn as to whether the cognominal framework possesses any feasible potential for emergence and development in the contemporary international architecture.
Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920
Author: William W. Hagen
Publisher:
ISBN: 0521884926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0521884926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.